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Yield Hungry Insurers Venture into a Range of Alternative Investments

Yield-Hungry Insurers Venture into a Range of Alternative Investments

Frances Denmark • June 2013

In search of higher returns, insurance company CIOs are building out their alternative-investment portfolios by allocating to everything from hedge funds to private equity. Many of them have outsourced the job to alternative asset managers’ specialty insurance divisions.

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